as you can tell from the picture, its the “old people and goodie 2-shoes” that believe anything they read in the paper and what other people have made up. Shrewsbury isnt being used as a “dumping ground” its because theres plenty of space for development! John Gough is talking out of his, well you know the last word! Google waste incinerator, you will find everything about them and find out theres no 3-eyed fish or people with cancer living near them.

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some should tell those people its bad for your health to stand around in the cold waving signs around by the road, someone may be tempted to run them over, for making a load of rubbish up about something that’s going to them good.

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Steven Gardiner, who said they will be burning Medical waste, that’s all done at the Hospital’s, this place is for domestic waste, and it the site isn’t near peoples homes.and if google isn’t a reliable source, then use other sources, your just all a bunch of nobodies who doesnt want things that will help and then blame the government that there not helping, well they are, its just everyone isnt helping there selves and are just concerned about things that havent been proved like mobile phone masts and cancer, and incinerators and fumes. Its really peeing me off, and I thing other people are really annoyed by the amount of people that just want to live in the 19th century, well lets put this straight, this a world that is needed and we need to sort things out like disposing of rubbish, if you don’t like plans for incinerators or mobile phone masts, then leave, stop wasting tax payers money for research and then standing outside protesting against incinerators or open mines or mobile phone masts. Welcome to the new age, don’t like it, go away, we welcome people who can help not who like things the way they are. Oh and dont moan about ricing fuel prices or no reception on your phone, its only yourselves you can blame!

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look at the soap dodging lefties, shame on them, luddites

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Thanks for getting back, Mr J.

You say incineration will create energy.

Would you concede, though, that recycling SAVES energy, and that we should be expanding recycling in this country, which lags way behind our EU neighbours?

Would you also agree

a) that incineration undermines recycling?

b) that it is associated with toxic poisoning?

c) and that people are not keen on it ( http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/12/03/mps-survey-reveals-79-against-burner/ )

Even if the dioxin contamination will be small, would you not agree that some contamination will happen, that dioxins can be extremely harmful even in small quantities and that the protesters are right to raise health as an issue?

I notice that the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Shrewsbury is a doctor.

In a letter to the Shropshire Star on October 30, 2008, he said,

‘There is good evidence from soil sampling that incinerators built over the last twenty or thirty years have increased the levels of toxic materials in the environment. The main serious pollutants from Municipal Waste Incinerators, and from hospital incinerators are dioxins which arise from burning plastics. The main pollutant from crematoria is mercury.

There is also evidence that suggests that there have been more stillbirths and fatal birth defects in areas close to incinerators and crematoria. This seems to be particularly true of older incinerators. The evidence cannot prove that these health problems are caused by pollution from the incinerators, but there is some likelihood that there is a link. The increase seems to be about one per thousand births.

In the circumstances it would seem to be irresponsible to build a new incinerator anywhere that is likely to expose pregnant mothers to the toxic waste.’

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tory boy why do you think 79% of respondents to this survey ( http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/12/03/mps-survey-reveals-79-against-burner/ )might be quite pleased there are people giving up their valuable free time to protest on their behalf?

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Mr J, I appreciate your more courteous tone now and will therefore respond to your points.

However, I feel that the pro-incineration side -on the Shropshire Star threads at least – has been harmed by the rudeness of its proponents and its dismissive approach to widely felt health concerns.

Mr J, you say that plastics cannot be recycled at the moment.

According to the ‘RECOUP (RECycling Of Used Plastics Limited)’ website this is NOT the case.

RECOUP is the national body for development of sustainable plastics packaging recycling in the UK, and it is backed by organisations across the packaging supply and recycling chain.

Could you comment on this, Mr J?

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To Steve Gardiner: I do know of people who live next to incinerators and they own the houses, the incinerator was built in the 70′s. If I was to live near an incinerator, it wouldnt bother me, what about the people who live above shops, like take aways and chip shops.

To Huw Peach: If plastics can be recycled then why dont the council let us recycle them, you should put that forward.

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